List of people from Comilla

This is a list of notable residents and people who have origins in the Comilla District of Bangladesh. This list also includes British Bangladeshis, Bangladeshi Americans, Bangladeshi Canadians, and other non-resident Bengalis who have origins in the Comilla District.

Freedom fighters

 * Shib Narayan Das, member of BLF, one of the designers of the first flag of Bangladesh
 * Shaheed Dhirendranath Datta (1886–1971), ex-Minister of Law, Language movement activist and Shaheed of 1971
 * Lt-Col. Akbar Hossain (1942–2006), veteran freedom fighter, ex-Minister of Mineral Sources (1978), ex-Minister of Forest Preservation (1991), ex-Minister of Inland Water
 * AKM Bahauddin Bahar

Politicians

 * Muzaffar Ahmed (1922-2019),He was a Bangladeshi Politician & Professor. He was an adviser of Provisional Government of Bangladesh during war time in 1971.He was the President of Bangladesh National Awami Party (Pro-Moscow).
 * Kazi Zafar Ahmed (1939-2015), member of the presidium of Jatiya Party, ex-Prime Minister (1988), ex-Minister of Education (1986)
 * Ghulam Azam (1922–2014), ex Leader of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami; professor; politician; convicted war criminal
 * Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain, member of the standing committee of Bangladesh Nationalist Party, ex-Minister of Energy & Mineral Resources (1991) and ex-Minister of Health & Family Welfare (2001)
 * Mustafa Kamal (1947-), politician and cricket official
 * Shaukat Mahmood (1959-), senior journalist, editor of Weekly Economic Times, adviser to Begum Khaleda Zia and elected president (2007–08, 2009-incumbent) of National Press Club
 * Jehangir Khan Tareen, Pakistani politician of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, born in Comilla
 * Mujibul Haque Mujib, a member of the Bangladesh National Parliament for the constituency of Comilla-11 and is the current Minister for Railways of Bangladesh
 * Muhammad Hasanuzzaman (1900–1968), member of the Bengal Legislative Assembly
 * Khan Bahadur Nawab Sir Kazi Golam Mohiuddin Faroqui (1891–1984), knight and politician

Social activists and philanthropists

 * Nawab Faizunnesa, poet, pioneer in women's education, founder of Faizunnesa Girls’ School
 * Ayman Sadiq Founder at ten minute school

Educators and scholars

 * Fazlul Halim Chowdhury, former vice-chancellor, Dhaka University
 * Mohammad Kabir Hassan, noted financial scholar, University of New Orleans

Writers

 * Buddhadeb Bosu (1908–1974), Bangla poet, novelist, translator, editor and essayist
 * Kazi Nazrul Islam, from West Bengal, but resided at Comilla for long
 * Abdul Kadir (1906–1984), researcher, poet and editor

Musicians

 * Sachin Dev Burman (1906–1975), known as S.D. Burman, singer, composer and music director
 * Rahul Dev Burman, known as R.D. Burman, son of S.D. Burman, composer and pioneer in Bollywood music direction
 * Alauddin Khan
 * Sudhin Das
 * Ali Akbar Khan
 * Gazi Mazharul Anwar
 * Alaka Das, artist of classical music, principal of Sangeet Shikhharthee Sammilan
 * Asif Akbar

Actors

 * Sabitri Chatterjee, Indian actress
 * Ferdous Ahmed, Bangladeshi actor
 * Chinmoy Roy, Bengali actor
 * Bidya Sinha Saha Mim, Bangladeshi actress

Scientists

 * Harold John Finlay (1901–1951), New Zealand palaeontologist, was born in Comilla

Sports

 * Ranjit Saha (born 1964), ex-international footballer

Religious scholars

 * Abu Taher Misbah (born 1956), Islamic scholar, academic and textbook author